Damen yard completes final upgrades to VOS Start
VOS Start's first project will be a charter to MHI Vestas Offshore Wind for the construction of the Walney Extension offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea
Final works on board the DP2 vessel included installation of a motion-compensated gangway by Barge Master and Bosch Rexroth, the extended installation of a Kongsberg referencing system including a “windfarm module”, and an active heave-compensated crane from SMST.
The VOS Start is the fourth in a series of vessels which Vroon is building in China. They have all been brought to Oranjewerf for completion following construction at Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding, but this vessel has been the most complex so far because of the walk-to-work gangway.
A number of other Dutch companies were involved in the ship’s preparation for charter. These included Niron Staal Amsterdam, a Damen company, which fabricated two boat landing ladders, Norway’s Kongsberg which supplied various components, and the British company H2M which supplied the mountings required for up to eight temporary living units.
